Do you ever feel broken?
As if there's really nothing that can be done to fix the way you are.
Maybe you even secretly believe you were born broken.
It's easy to do in this world that insists we hold ourselves to impossible standards that have nothing to do,
After all,
With the things that really matter in life,
Like getting your soul right and living joyfully.
If you're one of us who feels broken by life,
I suggest that you look,
As I do,
To the goddess Akilandeswari for support,
For she is never not broken.
Isn't that beautiful?
Akilandeswari doesn't fight her brokenness.
She accepts that she's perpetually broken.
She smiles serenely as she rides through life on the back of a crocodile.
What's the worst that could happen?
She's already broken.
The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is called kintsugi,
And it emphasizes the beauty of the broken object.
It calls to mind not only the piece as it was before it was broken,
But also the event that fractured it.
Finally,
It speaks to the care that was taken to repair it.
It speaks of love,
Doesn't it?
And being loved.
It wasn't thrown away because it was fractured.
It was lovingly restored.
It's a treasure.
I am one who felt broken.
I am one who felt broken from the moment I was self-aware.
So the idea of a goddess who is always broken resonates with me.
There was a time when I decided that I couldn't let anything get near me,
As the pain of life threatened to break me even further.
I didn't believe I could survive another blow.
But that was before I came to know Akilandeswari.
From her,
I learned the lesson.
The world will always break you.
Power comes in knowing that you get by perfectly fine,
Even though you're broken into pieces.
